947598 - Unable to play YouTube videos with default UA

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 936851

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Markus Unterwaditzer]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20131118194756

Steps to reproduce:

1.  Go to any YouTube video (using the mobile site)
2.  Tap on video to play


Actual results:

Firefox opened a completely black activity (which presumably should contain the video in fullscreen), but after that, nothing happens


Expected results:

The video should play

This behavior can be achieved by switching to another User Agent by using the Firefox addon "Phony", reloading the page and tapping on the video.

Comment 1

[Markus Unterwaditzer]

Additionally, this bug also existed in previous versions of Firefox.

Comment 2

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Which device, Android OS, and version of Firefox are you testing with? Using the default unaltered user-agent, you should get mobile YouTube. Tapping a video on mobile YouTube should launch the YouTube application using a special intent and vnd.youtube content-type.

Comment 3

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Duping this over to 906869, this sounds like the same issue. The device running Android must have YouTube installed as it's currently expected. Please re-open if this is not the case, and if so, please attach a log capturing output from when you attempt to launch a video off their mobile site.